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Irish Times Article Re: Flat Rate

viking · 2002-02-01 11:53:40

Taken from Business Section of today's Irish Times: "Flat-rate access could help level steep climb to broadband summit" by Karlin Lillington article viking

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01-02-2002 12:53pm

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Taken from Business Section of today's Irish Times:

"Flat-rate access could help level steep climb to broadband summit" by Karlin Lillington

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However, I think flat-rate access should be an immediate priority for two reasons.

One, it at least begins to address the ridiculous situation we have, where staying online for any length of time begins to inflate one's phone bills to daunting levels. Offer flat-rate access and people's ability to make full use of the Net will begin to soar.

Introducing flat-rate access also helps create the consumer and small business broadband market that Eircom keeps arguing isn't there.

Flat-rate take-up in Britain surely indicates a potential interest in higher-priced, always-on broadband services - if only they were available.

And for many people, flat-rate access at a reasonable price for provider and user will be perfectly satisfactory, at least in the short to medium term. Supplying flat-rate access to the market is a positive step that could happen immediately and would bring some air back into the current stifling situation.

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